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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does William learn from Newton one day?
(a) That Ted has a mistress.
(b) That Ted is dying.
(c) That Rosie has left Ted for Kemp.
(d) That Rosie is dead.

2. Why does Amy think it good that Rosie leaves Ted?
(a) She drained Ted's ability to write.
(b) She was probably diseased.
(c) Ted would not have been great otherwise.
(d) She drained Ted's finances.

3. Who keeps Rosie occupied for a couple weeks?
(a) Kemp.
(b) Kear.
(c) Jack Kuyper.
(d) Ted.

4. What does William do all day while living at Vincent Square?
(a) Work at the hospital.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Write.
(d) Lecture to students.

5. What does Ted seem to be doing?
(a) Getting ready to divorce Rosie.
(b) Getting ready to snatch a piece of fame.
(c) William has no sense about it.
(d) Broadening his horizons.

6. Who greets William as he walks down High Street?
(a) A former classmate in medical studies.
(b) The old curate from Blakestable.
(c) A former classmate at his prepatory school.
(d) A good friend of Rosie's.

7. Where do Roy and William meet?
(a) Victoria Station.
(b) Near Big Ben.
(c) Straford-on-Avon.
(d) Trafalger Square.

8. What renowned poet does Isabel manage?
(a) Crowley.
(b) Aldington.
(c) Jasper Gibbons.
(d) Chesterton.

9. What does William sense about Ted's affect?
(a) He is growing aloof.
(b) He is unhappy.
(c) He is becoming surly.
(d) He is in love.

10. Where does Rosie take William?
(a) To meet her daughter.
(b) To join a whist game.
(c) To see Ted.
(d) To the horse track.

11. What does Mrs. Hudson laugh at?
(a) William's silly jokes.
(b) The bills Parliament passes these days.
(c) All the things that she has seen and heard.
(d) She does not laugh and is a somewhat dour woman.

12. What does the Bear and Key rent William?
(a) A dilapidated Daimler.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) An old Rolls.
(d) An old Bentley.

13. What does Isabel say Rosie looks like in the painting of her?
(a) A vengeful goddess.
(b) A sacrificial heifer.
(c) Eve in the garden.
(d) A river sprite.

14. Who does Rosie say is always the perfect gentleman?
(a) Ted.
(b) William.
(c) Kemp.
(d) Kear.

15. What happens between Ted and his nurse?
(a) They marry.
(b) She ends up suing him.
(c) They collaborate on a new book.
(d) She ends up introducing him to his next wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosie read a lot of?

2. What does Rosie say will happen in a hundred years?

3. Why is William bitter?

4. What do Roy and Amy deplore?

5. How does Rosie act about her and Ted leaving debts in Blackstable?

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